i have a male eastern (i think) who i want to put outside so he can have more space.. i live in an apartment and only have a back porch .. not a yard.. so i am limited on space.. the entire back porch (2nd floor) is surrounded by a cement wall.. i think the dimensions are something like 12 feet by 6 feet? this is a guess.. we never use it for anything other than storage.. so what i was thinking was making almost the entire thing available for him to roam around.. i am debating either making a small walk in area from the door to my house where i can step onto the porch and reach in to change the water and such.. or getting a huge piece of wood (about 7ft x 6ft) and building walls around it.. with cement blocks underneath it to elevate it off the ground... the first idea would provide him with more room.. but i dont know if i want to have that much dirt out there.. i will have to move it when i relocate next year (to somewhere with a backyard!) does anyone have any suggestions on this sort of thing? at the moment he is inside in a 4ft x 2 1/2 ft enclosure... but i would like to give him a lot more room... also how do you keep them from trampling plants? i want to give him some strawberry plants but so far all the live stuff ive put in with him, he just destroys...
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enclosure on back porch..
sleepofapples
Aug 18, 2005 12:14 AM
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PHRatz
Aug 18, 2005 09:57 AM
Hey sounds like a good plan to me.
I've never been able to stop them from plant trampling without blocking off the plants with some sort of barrier.
That thick white vinyl decorative stuff made for garden borders seems to be pretty good barrier material. Home Depot & Lowe's have more pet supplies than they know. 
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PHRatz
